 Author Name: Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz
Title: Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s
Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket Edition: First Edition Publisher: New York Alfred A. Knopf 1984 ISBN Number: 0394534395 / 9780394534398
Seller ID: NPTJ6048
Tan boards and cloth spine with silver lettering, in an unclipped dust jacket. Stated First edition. The book has a slight spine lean and edge wear. The dust jacket has some rubbing, edge wear, and a one inch tear at the top edge. There are no creases or previous owner's marks. Covers how the Seven Sister colleges -- Smith, Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard -- as well as three twentieth-century successors -- Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and Scripps -- were conceived and how they developed architecturally, academically, and socially. 420 pp.
History Education Womens Colleges Seven Sisters Nonfiction Social Sciences Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz 0-394-53439-5
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